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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d60c5f4 | Liberate yourself from my vice-like grip! | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 5066033 | oh, this happiness is strong stuff. It's marvelously liberating. | j.d. salinger | ||
| fefabd8 | If you're not in the mood, you can't do that stuff right. | mood work | J.D. Salinger | |
| 0e03319 | Did you see more glass? | J.D. Salinger | ||
| e890f50 | As a body everyone is single, as a soul never | Hermann Hesse | ||
| e340a16 | We're in the world, not against it. It doesn't work to try to stand outside things and run them, that way. It just doesn't work, it goes against life. There is a way but you have to follow it. The world is, no matter how we think it ought to be. You have to be with it. You have to let it be. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 613d747 | Ged had neither lost nor won but, naming the shadow of his death with his own name, had made himself whole: a man: who, knowing his whole true self, cannot be used or possessed by any power other than himself, and whose life therefore is lived for life's sake and never in the service of ruin, or pain, or hatred, or the dark. | dark earthsea life self | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 7fa1153 | I'll kill you! Sam had screamed it at Arobynn as the King of the Assassins beat her. He'd roared it. In those horrible minutes, whatever bond had sprung up between her and Sam hadn't broken. He'd switched loyalties- he'd chosen to stand by her, fight for her. If anything, that made him different from Ansel. Sam could have hurt or betrayed her a dozen times over, but he'd never jumped at the opportunity. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 6ec6259 | Tarquin turned from the table, just as the tent flaps parted for a pair of broad shoulders-- Varian. He didn't so much as look at his High Lord, his focus going right to where Amren sat at the head of the table. As if he'd sensed she was here--or someone had reported. And he'd come running. Amren's eyes flicked up from the Book as Varian halted. A coy smile curved her red lips. There was still blood and dirt splattered on Varian's brown ski.. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 7b97a5d | Rowan Whitethorn is a legend. And so is his--what do you call them?" "Cadre," she said glumly. "The six of them ..." Aedion loosed a breath. "We used to tell stories about them around fires. Their battles and exploits and adventures." She sighed through her nose. "Please, please don't ever tell him that. I'll never hear the end of it, and he'll use it in every argument we have." -- | rowan rowan-whitethorn | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 285e294 | Everything hurts." Falkan grimaced, rubbing at his leg. "Remind me never to do anything heroic again." | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 3eb8bcc | WITCH KILLER-- THE HUMAN IS STILL INSIDE HIM | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 28f84ef | I did not mind stepping out of the shadows, did not mind even being in the shadows to begin with, so long as he was with me. My friend through so many dangers - who had fought for me when no one else would, even myself. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| d1f43a7 | Do you lie awake at night to come up with all your witty replies for the following day? | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 62ad568 | I just...Leave a note. Or tell me next time.' 'Would you have let me go if I had?' 'I do not LET you do anything.' He tilted my face up, Mor and Azriel looking away. 'You are your own person, you make your own choices. But we are mates-- I am yours, and you are mine. We do not let each other do things, as if we dictate the movements of each other. But...I might have insisted I go with you More for my own mental well-being, just to know you .. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| e5c2268 | Long live the queen. | nesryn-fariq queen-of-terrasen | Sarah J. Maas | |
| b3165d6 | I blinked at my mate. Then grinned, not bothering to hide the savagery within it. "Hybern has no idea about the hell that's about to rain down upon them, do they." "Here's to family reunions," was all Rhys said. Then" | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| e6be9c9 | Thank you, Rukia... Because of you, the rain has stopped falling. | Tite Kubo | ||
| e86e852 | The past can be a terrible weight bound to you by an unbreakable chain. You can drag it with you, forever looking over your shoulder at what holds you back. Or you can let it go and move forward. It's your choice. | Raymond E. Feist | ||
| cb0c3bd | There's really nothing quite like someone's wanting you dead to make you want to go on living. | Roger Zelazny | ||
| b8e0f4d | Evvy: "Is she going to eat Jooba-hooba? She looks like she's going to bite him, at least." Briar: "No -- if she bit him, he'd die." | briar evvy jebilu-stoneslicer rosethorn | Tamora Pierce | |
| 24efb3e | Don't let him upset you," Niko told the four softly. "He's old and he's frightened." | niko | Tamora Pierce | |
| 99b4885 | Stefan spat. "Oh, aye, he fell. O' course, Master Ralon helped him fall, several times. Poor li'l tyke didn't have a chance." | falling fighting humor | Tamora Pierce | |
| e0e2ba6 | You turned into a hero when I wasn't watching. | Tamora Pierce | ||
| 0ff8e42 | the way we eat represents our most profound engagement with the natural world. Daily, our eating turns nature into culture, transforming the body of the world into our bodies and minds. | Michael Pollan | ||
| e0f5b64 | Would a minute have mattered? No, probably not, although his young son appeared to have a very accurate internal clock. Possibly even 2 minutes would be okay. Three minutes, even. You could go to five minutes, perhaps. But that was just it. If you could go for five minutes, then you'd go to ten, then half an hour, a couple of hours...and not see your son all evening. So that was that. Six o'clock, prompt. Every day. Read to young Sam. No ex.. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 60caed6 | They can tak' oour lives but they canna tak' oour troousers! | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 96403d3 | I never said nothing..." "I know you never! I could hear you not saying anything! You've got the loudest silences I ever did hear from anyone who wasn't dead!" | humor humorous | Terry Pratchett | |
| bbb0827 | The four lesser apocalyptical horsemen of Panic, Bewilderment, Ignorance, and Shouting took control of the room, | Terry Pratchett | ||
| af2957f | Good and bad is tricky," she said. "I ain't too certain about where people stand. P'raps what matters is which way you face." | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 5a99a8d | Because some stories end, but old stories go on, and you gotta dance to the music if you want to stay ahead | Terry Pratchett | ||
| e1283dc | Pollution removed his helmet and shook out his long white hair. He had taken over when Pestilence, muttering about penicillin, had retired in 1936. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| ce364b5 | Racism was not a problem on the Discworld, because--what with trolls and dwarfs and so on--speciesism was more interesting. Black and white lived in perfect harmony and ganged up on green. | humour racism speciesism | Terry Pratchett | |
| ac55903 | Things are not as they seem. They are what they are. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 772eb82 | While people argue with one another about the specifics of Freud's work and blame him for the prejudices of his time, they overlook the fundamental truth of his writing, his grand humility: that we frequently do not know our own motivations in life and are prisoners to what we cannot understand. We can recognize only a small fragment of our own, and an even smaller fragment of anyone else's, impetus. | humility impetus motivations prejudice truth understanding | Andrew Solomon | |
| efeb0da | The freedom to swing your fist ends at my nose. | freedom | Mercedes Lackey | |
| dc7077d | First commandment: there ain't no such thing as "one true way" and the way you find is only good for you, not anybody else, because your interpretation of what you see and feel and understand as the truth is never going to be the same as anyone else's. Second commandment: the only answers worth having are the ones you find for yourself. Third commandment: leave the world better than you found it. Fourth commandment: if it isn't true, going .. | Mercedes Lackey | ||
| 9242b3d | He was a planet without an atmosphere. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 48ebed9 | In a world of monotonous horror there could be no salvation in wild dreaming. | Richard Matheson | ||
| 8f2f2e8 | Failures plagued me. Things I had omitted or ignored, neglected. What I should have given and hadn't. I felt the biting pang of every unfulfillment. | failure life | Richard Matheson | |
| ce31d1f | Make a list of what is really important to you. Embody it. | Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
| 4d9d87e | I've got a fortune in gold. Ah, was that a flicker in your eye? Do you like me better now that you know I'm rich?" He curled his finger under her chin. "Because I'm all right with that." | Kresley Cole | ||
| 4f7159c | Wroth! Don't do this!" "Five years of hell," he sneered, palming her ass roughly. "You deserve to be fucked till you can't walk." | Kresley Cole | ||
| b6a5265 | Take care, lest you lose a male who'll desire only you - and gain a male who'll desire only others. | warnings | Kresley Cole |